GillianC
Herpetologists' offspring
It's been a while since I've posted anything, but I figured I might as well update on a few of the exciting things that have happened this year. Unfortunately this has not been a great year for my collection - starting in January a whole variety of problems started to crop up that I had never encountered before. Mites finally showed up on my Gonyosoma just as I moved into a new apartment and he came out of a 1 month quarantine. Luckily I did manage to get that under control before it became a problem for any of my other snakes, but a few weeks after that my house snake passed away from long term health complications. Then this spring one of my females became severely eggbound - she had seven eggs remaining after laying four, and it took several weeks before all of them finally came out (I had to aspirate two and massage two out, but she took care of the rest and is doing great). Then my rainbow boa started showing some severe neurological symptoms akin to IBD, but after research and questions answered by the breeder (the wonderful Ted Thompson of Susquehanna Ectotherms), her symptoms have all but disappeared and she appears back to normal.
A variety of other things happened, but there have also been some happy things! We had another clutch of eggs that came out with no issue - a cross between two classics het. anery, hypo, diffused, and motley. Well, the first little nose looked like a classic, to be expected. But the second nose...
TURNED OUT TO BE A FIRE! I was shocked by the amelanism, but when I saw that clear belly I was beyond excited. This little guy/gal has already eaten two meals and is doing great!
These are some other guys from the clutch. All in all we ended up with 4 classics, a fire, an anery, an anery motley (possibly diffused), a bloodred (possibly motley), and a hypo motley (seen below).
Here are some pictures of an all classic clutch (okeetee x anery) that we also hatched out this year:
And last but not least, a non-corn that I just picked up last weekend (on my birthday) at the Hamburg, PA show:
This is Malcolm - he's a captive bred cave-dwelling rat snake from Susquehanna Ectotherms.
Thanks for viewing!
A variety of other things happened, but there have also been some happy things! We had another clutch of eggs that came out with no issue - a cross between two classics het. anery, hypo, diffused, and motley. Well, the first little nose looked like a classic, to be expected. But the second nose...
TURNED OUT TO BE A FIRE! I was shocked by the amelanism, but when I saw that clear belly I was beyond excited. This little guy/gal has already eaten two meals and is doing great!
These are some other guys from the clutch. All in all we ended up with 4 classics, a fire, an anery, an anery motley (possibly diffused), a bloodred (possibly motley), and a hypo motley (seen below).
Here are some pictures of an all classic clutch (okeetee x anery) that we also hatched out this year:
And last but not least, a non-corn that I just picked up last weekend (on my birthday) at the Hamburg, PA show:
This is Malcolm - he's a captive bred cave-dwelling rat snake from Susquehanna Ectotherms.
Thanks for viewing!
